A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs:
data isn’t usable by itself
if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays
And yesterday I was speaking with Corey Seeman about how to measure and use “popularity” information [...]
Posted January 21, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: corey seeman, data visualization, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, metrics, opac, opac 2.0, popularity, ryan eby, search rank, search ranking. 3 Comments.
Al asked how low I will go to chase traffic. Truth is, I can’t answer. Maisonbisson has had moments of popularity, but it’s hard to know why.
Alexa tells us there are 18 million unique sites on the Web, but…
if you take Alexa’s Top 100,000 sites you’ll find that almost 3 out every 4 clicks are [...]
Posted August 18, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: alexa.com, popularity index, popularity ranking, search rank, site rank, traffic, traffic rank, web traffic. One Comment.
